pushes

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of push.

   The coach pushes each player to train harder before the season.

   A hydraulic ram pushes the steel beam into place.

   Note

   The verb form that agrees with he, she, it or a singular noun. It shares its spelling with the plural noun. Most of its meanings take an object: a door, a product, a reluctant player. The sense of steady striving needs no object: she pushes until the job is done. The meaning "approach" is regional and informal, so keep it to casual speech.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of push.

   It took two hard pushes to free the door from the frame.

   The campaign relied on a series of marketing pushes over the summer.

   Note

   The -es spelling follows the sh of push, and in speech it adds a full extra syllable. Only the countable uses can be counted this way: separate shoves, separate great efforts, separate attempts at persuasion. On a marching field, several forward drives of a company front toward the audience are pushes too. When push is used as an uncountable noun, it has no plural at all.

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